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Trait phenomenological control predicts experience of mirror synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion

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posted on 2023-06-12, 09:30 authored by Peter LushPeter Lush, Vanessa Botan, Ryan ScottRyan Scott, Anil SethAnil Seth, Jamie WardJamie Ward, Zoltan DienesZoltan Dienes
In hypnotic responding, expectancies arising from imaginative suggestion drive striking experiential changes (e.g., hallucinations) — which are experienced as involuntary — according to a normally distributed and stable trait ability (hypnotisability). Such experiences can be triggered by implicit suggestion and occur outside the hypnotic context. In large sample studies (of 156, 404 and 353 participants), we report substantial relationships between hypnotisability and experimental measures of experiential change in mirror-sensory synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion comparable to relationships between hypnotisability and individual hypnosis scale items. The control of phenomenology to meet expectancies arising from perceived task requirements can account for experiential change in psychological experiments.

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  • Published

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Journal

Nature Communications

ISSN

2041-1723

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Springer Nature

Volume

11

Page range

1-10

Article number

a4853

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  • Psychology Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2020-09-25

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-09-29

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2020-09-24

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